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title: 'Photophlow: A Social Experience for Flickr Photographers'
date: 2008-02-05
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<a href="http://blog.epicedits.com/" target="_blank">Brian Auer of EpicEdits</a> recently did a guest article on <a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/" target="_blank">Digital Photography School</a> about photophlow. I personally have tried it, and it is really got me excited about moving some of my photos over to Flickr. I have been using SmugMug for some time now, and I don&#39;t plan to close my SmugMug account. I feel better about having full size images that I know are being backed up on SmugMug. But Flickr is way more social, and now with photophlow you add a real-time aspect to the social that the normal flickr is missing. 
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<a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/photophlow-a-social-experience-for-flickr-photographers/" target="_blank">Blurb from the article:</a>
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	<strong>photophlow is a mixture of several concepts and existing services (a mashup of sorts).</strong> The basis of photophlow is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr: the photo-sharing website</a> that is popular amongst many online photographers. photophlow uses the Flickr API to interface with Flickr users and photos. The interface is somewhat of a skin that allows for added functionality and new features. The main feature photophlow adds to the Flickr experience is the use of chat rooms and real-time interaction with the other photographers.
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Brian goes into details about the interface and how he has been using the service as a way to determine which photographs makes the EpicEdits weekly PhotoDump. 
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	<strong>As an extension of my <a href="http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/02/03/photodump-02-03-2008/">weekly PhotoDump blog posts</a>, I&rsquo;ve been experimenting with photophlow</strong> as a means to get people involved with the <a href="http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/01/22/schedule-for-photophlow-gatherings/">photo selection process</a>. Prior to photophlow, I had been personally selecting photos from our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/epicedits/">Flickr pool</a> to display on the blog each week. With photophlow, I invited the people submitting photos to the pool to also select the photos that would be displayed on the blog post.
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Maybe there is some value in this Web2.0 stuff after all. 
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P.S. I still have a few photophlow invites if you are interested. Comment or email me. 
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